2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC

Piotr Ponikowski, Adriaan A Voors, Stefan D Anker, Héctor Bueno, John G F Cleland, Andrew J S Coats, Volkmar Falk, José Ramón González-Juanatey, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Ewa A Jankowska, Mariell Jessup, Cecilia Linde, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, John T Parissis, Burkert Pieske, Jillian P Riley, Giuseppe M C Rosano, Luis M Ruilope, Frank Ruschitzka, Frans H Rutten, Peter van der Meer, ESC Scientific Document Group, Gerasimos Filippatos, John J V McMurray, Victor Aboyans, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Nawwar Al-Attar, John James Atherton, Johann Bauersachs, A John Camm, Scipione Carerj, Claudio Ceconi, Antonio Coca, Perry Elliott, Çetin Erol, Justin Ezekowitz, Covadonga Fernández-Golfín, Donna Fitzsimons, Marco Guazzi, Maxime Guenoun, Gerd Hasenfuss, Gerhard Hindricks, Arno W Hoes, Bernard Iung, Tiny Jaarsma, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Stavros Konstantinides, Mitja Lainscak, Patrizio Lancellotti, Gregory Y H Lip, Francesco Maisano, Christian Mueller, Mark C Petrie, Massimo F Piepoli, Silvia G Priori, Adam Torbicki, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Stephan Windecker, Clyde Yancy, Jose Luis Zamorano, Jose Luis Zamorano, Victor Aboyans, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Lina Badimon, Gonzalo Barón-Esquivias, Helmut Baumgartner, Jeroen J Bax, Héctor Bueno, Scipione Carerj, Veronica Dean, Çetin Erol, Donna Fitzsimons, Oliver Gaemperli, Paulus Kirchhof, Philippe Kolh, Patrizio Lancellotti, Gregory Y H Lip, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Massimo F Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Marco Roffi, Adam Torbicki, António Vaz Carneiro, Stephan Windecker, Hamayak S Sisakian, Elnur Isayev, Alena Kurlianskaya, Wilfried Mullens, Mariya Tokmakova, Petros Agathangelou, Vojtech Melenovsky, Henrik Wiggers, Mahmoud Hassanein, Tiina Uuetoa, Jyri Lommi, Elizabeta Srbinovska Kostovska, Yves Juillière, Alexander Aladashvili, Andreas Luchner, Christina Chrysohoou, Noémi Nyolczas, Gestur Thorgeirsson, Jean Marc Weinstein, Andrea Di Lenarda, Nazipa Aidargaliyeva, Gani Bajraktari, Medet Beishenkulov, Ginta Kamzola, Tony Abdel-Massih, Jelena Celutkiene, Stéphanie Noppe, Andrew Cassar, Eleonora Vataman, Saadia Abir-Khalil, Petra van Pol, Rune Mo, Ewa Straburzynska-Migaj, Cândida Fonseca, Ovidiu Chioncel, Evgeny Shlyakhto, Petar Otasevic, Eva Goncalvesová, Mitja Lainscak, Beatriz Díaz Molina, Maria Schaufelberger, Thomas Suter, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Leonid Voronkov, Ceri Davies, Piotr Ponikowski, Adriaan A Voors, Stefan D Anker, Héctor Bueno, John G F Cleland, Andrew J S Coats, Volkmar Falk, José Ramón González-Juanatey, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Ewa A Jankowska, Mariell Jessup, Cecilia Linde, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, John T Parissis, Burkert Pieske, Jillian P Riley, Giuseppe M C Rosano, Luis M Ruilope, Frank Ruschitzka, Frans H Rutten, Peter van der Meer, ESC Scientific Document Group, Gerasimos Filippatos, John J V McMurray, Victor Aboyans, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Nawwar Al-Attar, John James Atherton, Johann Bauersachs, A John Camm, Scipione Carerj, Claudio Ceconi, Antonio Coca, Perry Elliott, Çetin Erol, Justin Ezekowitz, Covadonga Fernández-Golfín, Donna Fitzsimons, Marco Guazzi, Maxime Guenoun, Gerd Hasenfuss, Gerhard Hindricks, Arno W Hoes, Bernard Iung, Tiny Jaarsma, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Stavros Konstantinides, Mitja Lainscak, Patrizio Lancellotti, Gregory Y H Lip, Francesco Maisano, Christian Mueller, Mark C Petrie, Massimo F Piepoli, Silvia G Priori, Adam Torbicki, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Stephan Windecker, Clyde Yancy, Jose Luis Zamorano, Jose Luis Zamorano, Victor Aboyans, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Lina Badimon, Gonzalo Barón-Esquivias, Helmut Baumgartner, Jeroen J Bax, Héctor Bueno, Scipione Carerj, Veronica Dean, Çetin Erol, Donna Fitzsimons, Oliver Gaemperli, Paulus Kirchhof, Philippe Kolh, Patrizio Lancellotti, Gregory Y H Lip, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Massimo F Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Marco Roffi, Adam Torbicki, António Vaz Carneiro, Stephan Windecker, Hamayak S Sisakian, Elnur Isayev, Alena Kurlianskaya, Wilfried Mullens, Mariya Tokmakova, Petros Agathangelou, Vojtech Melenovsky, Henrik Wiggers, Mahmoud Hassanein, Tiina Uuetoa, Jyri Lommi, Elizabeta Srbinovska Kostovska, Yves Juillière, Alexander Aladashvili, Andreas Luchner, Christina Chrysohoou, Noémi Nyolczas, Gestur Thorgeirsson, Jean Marc Weinstein, Andrea Di Lenarda, Nazipa Aidargaliyeva, Gani Bajraktari, Medet Beishenkulov, Ginta Kamzola, Tony Abdel-Massih, Jelena Celutkiene, Stéphanie Noppe, Andrew Cassar, Eleonora Vataman, Saadia Abir-Khalil, Petra van Pol, Rune Mo, Ewa Straburzynska-Migaj, Cândida Fonseca, Ovidiu Chioncel, Evgeny Shlyakhto, Petar Otasevic, Eva Goncalvesová, Mitja Lainscak, Beatriz Díaz Molina, Maria Schaufelberger, Thomas Suter, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz, Leonid Voronkov, Ceri Davies

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Keywords: Arrhythmias; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Co-morbidities; Diagnosis; Ejection fraction; Guidelines; Heart failure; Hospitalization; Mechanical circulatory support; Multidisciplinary management; Natriuretic peptides; Neuro-hormonal antagonists; Pharmacotherapy; Transplantation.